Thursday, August 6, 2015

Poll: Who Will Fight For His/Her Country


WNU Editor: While doing the previous post I came upon this poll result. To say that I am surprised by these results is an understatement. This poll (and its breakdown of individual countries) is here.
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Bou said...

Seems like we (Canadians) don't really care...

August 6, 2015 at 9:20 AM
B.Poser said...

I am surprised that the US scored as high as it did. With a political left of center population, a steady diet of anti-American/Pro-American adversary reporting from the main stream media, low morale in the military due in large part to a series of military actions around the world, a largely broken military for largely the same reasons, incompetent political hacks in civilian and military leadership positions, and I could go on I would have expected the US to score much lower than it did on this.

While I'm not from Japan and as such I'm not in a position to know how they should proceed, but it does seem to me that given America's position and the rise in power of China, it does seem vitally important that Japan increase its military capabilities while phasing out reliance on America for this. In pushing this Mr. Abe and his team definitely seem on the right track, however, the low level of Japanese who seem willing to fight for their country seems troubling.

For this to work, it seems a better job of getting the Japanese people to support this seems to be in order. As such, better messaging is likely needed. It is in the vital best interest of both America and Japan that Japan rearm to a level that they were prior to WWII. Japan is NOT the same country as it was before and during WWII. As such, there is no realistic possibility of Japan reverting to the types of actions associated with it during WWII. For that matter America is not the same country it was during WWII either.

China and Russia come in higher in support for military actions for their countries that the US does. Russia and China are the two most powerful military forces on the planet today and likely will be for the foreseeable future. At least Russia will be. Given the military support within these countries and the power edge they have over the US, this would seem to increase the evidence that any actions that might lead to military conflict with these countries should be avoided if at all possible.

Examples of areas where conflict can probably be avoided is for the US to support China's position in the South China Sea and to support Russia's position on Ukraine and Eastern Europe. In exchange, we might be able to enlist their support on issues such as ensuring Iran complies with the nuclear deal and does not develop nuclear weapons and helping to ensure that Israel has adequate security from its enemies.

August 6, 2015 at 10:43 AM
Anonymous said...

It's interesting that over 60% of Ukrainians voted "yes". Regarding your earlier posts, I was under the assumption that many Ukrainians were avoiding conscription, and that the Ukrainian Army was generally facing a lack of new recruits.

Yet 60% voted that they would fight for their country? Where are these people? Was the poll done incorrectly?

August 7, 2015 at 1:26 AM

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